Why Growth Mindset Training Unlocks Potential and Performance

Growth mindset training unlocking potential and performance. In today’s fast-paced and uncertain world, how we think about challenges defines how we perform. When teams operate from a fixed mindset, they can fear failure, resist feedback and avoid stretch opportunities. A growth mindset culture transforms that — encouraging curiosity, innovation and continuous improvement.

This engaging and evidence-based workshop explores the psychology behind motivation and resilience, helping leaders and teams reframe challenge and uncertainty into opportunities for learning and growth. With over 20 years’ experience working with Fortune 100 companies, universities, the UN, NGOs, tech start-ups and organisations including Spotify, Google and The Times, we design each session to fit your culture and goals.

Every workshop is bespoke for your organisation and shaped around the objectives of delegates on the day, ensuring immediate relevance, measurable outcomes and lasting impact.

Aim: Growth Mindset Unlocking Potential and Performance

To equip participants with the insight, tools and practical strategies to foster a growth mindset — enhancing learning, adaptability and performance across teams.

Objectives

By the end of the workshop, participants will be able to:

  • Differentiate between fixed and growth mindset thinking and identify personal and organisational mindset patterns (Dweck).
  • Apply practical strategies to build resilience and motivation in the face of setbacks.
  • Reframe challenges and feedback as opportunities for development.
  • Use language and communication that encourage psychological safety and continuous learning.
  • Integrate growth mindset principles into leadership, feedback, and team culture.
  • Recognize and address organisational barriers that reinforce fixed mindset behaviours.
  • Model a growth mindset through self-awareness, reflection and adaptive leadership.
  • Commit to actionable changes that sustain a growth-oriented culture in hybrid and evolving workplaces.

Growth Mindset Course Content Overview

  • The psychology of mindset (Dweck’s research and beyond)
  • Fixed vs. growth mindset in leadership and teams
  • The neuroscience of learning, feedback and performance
  • Reframing challenge, feedback and failure
  • Creating psychological safety for experimentation and innovation
  • Growth mindset language, habits and coaching techniques
  • Embedding mindset change in organisational culture
  • Reflection, action planning and accountability strategies

Participants receive:

  • A workbook with mindset diagnostics
  • Reframing tools
  • reflective exercises
  • Action templates to apply immediately within their teams
  • Access to the Koru community
  • Koru resources
  • Unlimited support

Facilitators

Gill Thackray is the founder of Koru Development, business psychologist and author of The Positivity Coach and The Mindfulness Coach (Michael O’Mara Books).

Gill works internationally with the United Nations, the Natural History Museum, the V&A, Royal Museums Greenwich, the UN, UK Sport, the FA, the NHS, global healthcare bodies and universities.

A member of the British Neuroscience Association, the Association of Business Psychologists and the British Psychological Society, Gill brings a research-led, human-centred approach to leadership and sustainable performance.

Viv Dutton, Founder Growth Mindset at Work

One of the leading growth mindset experts in the UK, Viv has shared her growth mindset expertise globally with clients big and small. She has delivered programs internationally for Spotify, the Financial Times, New College of the Humanities, the Victoria & Albert Museum, the Natural History Museum, the UK’s NHS, the School for Social Entrepreneurs and the Institute for Global Change, to name a few. She’s also enjoyed supporting disadvantaged young people to transform their lives with her innovative pro-bono, growth mindset coaching program.

Viv is passionate about all things growth mindset and has more than 15 years experience of sharing growth mindset strategies for success. She writes for Thrive Global, Medium & Accounting News.

Format

Duration: Half-day or full-day (virtual or in-person). Also available soon as an on-demand online course.
Facilitators: This course is led by Positive Psychologist Viv Dutton, one of the UK’s leading mindset facilitators with over twenty years experience in helping organisations and individuals to develop a growth mindset. 
Audience: Senior leaders, managers and teams navigating transformation, change or innovation
Delivery: Bespoke workshop including interactive exercises, live case work and reflective discussion

Client Feedback

“I can honestly say that I have never seen such fantastic feedback for any external provider in all of the 25 years I have been in post. Everyone said it had been an investment of their time.”
— Yvonne White, Manager, Wrexham Medical Institute

“The leadership and management training provided by Viv and Gill was one of the best sessions we’ve ever had at Northeastern University.”
— Dr Catherine Brown, Director, Graduate Research School, Northeastern University, London

“Viv ran a Mindful Leadership Workshop for our Bonington Leadership Programme — professional, responsive, and inspiring. The blend of theory, practice and reflection was exceptional.”
— Larissa Morrish, Head of Procurement, Lancaster University

“Professional content with a personable approach — always engaging, always impactful. Feedback from staff is consistently outstanding.”
— Nina Waters, Corporate Services Director, British School of Osteopathy

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